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CHATHAM RECORD
o. J. PETERSON
Editor and Publisher
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One Year
Six Months
Thursday, March 7, 1929
If the ardor of Southern Re
publicans was not already
dampened by Mr. Hoover’s
failure to include a Southerner
in his cabinet, all that rain on
inauguration day should have
dampened it.
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Well, Mr. Hoover got him
a cabinet without our helping
l him a bit. And now we are
going to let him settle his farm
relief problem. The gentleman
is not to be envied. If he
pleases all the dissatisfied
groups, he will deserve the
plaudits of the world.
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We notice in The Raleigh
Times’ “Fifty Years Ago,” that
Dr. Wingate, president of
Wake Forest College, had died
at the age of 51, but we were
under the impression that Dr.
Wingate died in his old age.
How different 50 years looks
now and then!
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Fifty years ago March 1, The
Raleigh Visitor, according to
The Raleigh Times’ items from
that date, asked if there had
been a single school speech
made in the legislature that
session. If not, it was quite a
different session from any in
recent years.
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Coolidge has proved himself
a man of .grit. He has never
hesitated, apparently, to veto
a bill when he risked arousing
the hostility of his own parti
sans, or even when the meas
ure had much popular favor.
He has served well, and if he
takes it easy the rest of his life,
no one can blame him.
The institutions of the state
asked for $20,000,000 for per
manent* improvements. The
budget committee cut the sum
down to less than $2,000,000,
and this was actually needed.
But the House became stam
peded one day last week and
refused to grant that sfim in
bonds. But wiser action is ex
pected to follow. The state
could lose money by a false
economy.
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From The Raleigh Times’
“Fifty Years Ago” items, we
note that “Mr. George Dis
mukes, aged fifty and a most
worthy citizen of Chatham
county, was drowned in Deep
River on February 19.” It took
ten days to get the item in a
Raleigh daily at that time, and
probably it was clipped from
The Chatham Record. A coun
ty paper in those days didn’t
have its news plucked from
its nose before it could
go to press.
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The House has really
passed a school bill, which fixes
the school tax at 30 cents a
hundred, with help also for the
special tax districts, but as it
requires $5,000,000 more than
the appropriation bill had
planned for the equalization
fund, the next problem, and
the real one, if the bill passes
the senate, is to discover a
source from which to get the
money. The land owners will
be relieved but somebody else
will be soaked, and he will not
like it.
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Trust Jim Pou, the Raleigh
lawyer, to find the weak points
in the antagonist’s armor. He
was talking about extrava
gance in administration, and
struck upon that of school
management, when he stated
that one school had cashed a
voucher of SB3 for payment for
fish worms and frogs, presum
ably for dissection in the
biology courses. Some enter
prising Raleigh reporter should
enlarge upon this. We would
like to know whether they
were bought by the dozen, by
the peck, and the prevailing
prices. A youth who is not en
terprising enough to find his
own frog or fish worm for dis
section will never set the world
afire as a scientist, you bet. We
would wager that Dr. Poteat
has not paid that sum for
worms and frogs in his whole
career as teacher of biology at
Wake Forest College.
Again the people are prob
ably going to be given a chance
I to vote upon the question of
making it constitutionally pos
sible for the legislature to
classify property, and if
thought desirable to allow a
lower tax on evidences of
credit, such as mortgages,
notes, etc., and this time to
classify lands. The latter is
exceedingly important, and
will give a chance to fix a low
tax rate upon woods lands,
making it up when the timber
is cut, maybe, 25 years hence.
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G. M. Garren, cereal agrono
mist at State College, says that
the average production of corn
in North Carolina ought to be
fifty bushels or more, instead
of 22.8 bushels as at present.
Indeed, he says no farmer
should plant an acre without
tiie expectation of making fifty
bushels, and he is right. Os
course, such a production
means more 1 idle acres, fewer
horses or mules, also fewer
farm hands, or an excess of
production. But the transition
period is upon as, and only
those farmers who produce at
£4 cost as low as possible can
hope to succeed. The others
will have to eke out a bare liv
ing, or go at something else,
and such a man will find com
petition in other lines as severe
as in farming.
The county commissioners
are supposed to know their
business, but if they hhve em
ployed an attorney at S2O a
case to prosecute the hundreds
of land tax sales, it is very evi
dent that they do not. It is lit
tle short of an outrage, if short
at all, for a man who owes,
say, ten dollars tax on his lands
to have pay not only the in
terest rate of twenty per cent
for the first year, which, how
ever, is the law, and upon top
of that a S2O lawyer fee. Three
hundred such cases will amount
to $6,000, and any lawyer in
Chatham county can work a
whole year for that sum. But
such things are being done.
The writer has seen a tax bill
for $7 run up to about S3O by
this method. The law allows
a reasonable fee, but we pro
test that S2O is not a reason
able fee by the wholesale.
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Doesn’t the following para
graph sound as if it might
have been written any time
within the last ten years. Yet
it is from The Raleigh Visitor
of fifty years ago, March 1,
and was probably written by
the late C. A. Brown, so long
a printer at Pittsboro and Siler
City. If you will read “Fifty
Years Ago” section in The
Raleigh Times, you will detect
frequently an item that may be
attributed to Mr. Brown’s pen,
as he and his father ran The
Raleigh Visitor at that date.
But here is the item referred
to:
“Cape Fear and Yadkin Rail
road—When the legislature char
tered this road, it provided wha.t
has long been needed, a line
from the seaboard to the great
northwest, to tap Virginia, which
has so long and so often bled
us, and still runs our railroads
for us. It is well that there
should be one line of railway
running tlicugh the State from
southeast to northwest owned by
the State and its people.”
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Small favors thankfully re
ceived. Property owners in the
poorer counties, it appears, 1
will be relieved of ten cents of
the school taxes. Thirty cents
a hundred beats 40 cents right
along. But now it will be in
teresting tb see how those upon
whom the burden taken from
property owners is saddled
will take the change. If the
legislators succeed in giving
property considerable relief
and at the same time do not
overburden industries or in
dividuals, they will have earn
ed and deserved their ten dol
lars a day.
State College folk helped
kill Senator Hobbs’ bill to for
bid publication of forecasts of
crop and prices, on the ground
that the bill would hinder the
extension work of State Col
lege, and of course the machin
ery must be allowed to work
and the machinists to hold
their jobs, whether the conse
quencies are good or evil. Sen
ator Hobbs gave assurance that
he would insert a clause in the
bill making it impossible for it,
if passed, to hinder any of the
extension work except that of
crop and price estimating. But
still the House wouldn’t have
it. The bill passed the Senate.
THE CHATHAM RECORD. PITTSBORO, H. C-
It is “Better English” week,
but it depends upon the quality
of our new proofreader, as yet
unproved, as to whether The
Record will practice “better
English.”
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Since writing the protest
about the attorney’s fee for
settlement of land tax cases,
we are informed by Sheriff
Blair that there are not so
nearly many cases as one might
estimate from the advertise
ments. Many have been settled,
and there were numerous er
rors of one kind or another,
mostly as to the ownership of
the land advertised.
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The terms of Messrs. Bray
and Wilson as members of the
Board of Education expire
soon, but The Record is not
informed as to whether they
are slated to succeed them
selves or not. Also the term
of Supt. Thompson is soon to
expire, and it may be that the
re-election of fiim or of an
other will play a part in the
slating of the board members.
These things should be more of
a matter for the people. As it
is, a half-dozen men will con
trol the situation, or possibly
fewer. But Dr. Edwards, mem
ber of the house of representa
tives, will really have the de
ciding voice, we presume.
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It is evident that the major
ity of the legislature has come
to the conclusion that it is bet
ter for the farmers’ children to
have bread than to have two
extra months of school. The
legislators want to cut taxes,
but they do not know where
to get the money the state must
have if it maintains its present
expensive school system.
Twelve years jigo SSO was a
good salary for teachers in
North Carolina, $75 would be
as good now as SSO then. Cut
salaries now and raise them
again when times get better.
And don’t confine the cutting
to teachers’ salaries. Begin
right in the departments at
Raleigh.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Coggins and
family, of Hallison, were Sunday vis
itors in the home of W. A. Coggins.
Dewey Rives is spending some
time with his mother near here.
W. L. Coggins recently visited his
daughter in Greensboro, who under
went an operation there about two
weeks ago.
Mrs. P. D. Harris is in the Clinic
Hospital, Greensboro, for an opera
tion. We wish her an immediate re
covery.
Robert Snipes, of Durham, spent
the week-end at his home on route 2.
Eugene B. Straughan, who is in
the Clinic Hospital, Greensboro, is
improving, we are glad to state.
Miss Lelia Justice of Corinth was
a week-end visitor in the home of J.
A. Phillips.
Miss Dora , Moody, of Burlington,
was recent visitor in the home of her
parents.
D. F. Perrel and son, Elvid, of
Greensboro, were week-end visitors
near here. Mrs. Perrel is in Wash
ington, D. C., attending the inaugu
ration of President Herbert C.
Hoover, which took place Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Burke and fam
ily of Burlington were visitors here
and near here, during the week-end.
Houston Parrish and family have
moved from here. He worked on
the section force here with R. R.
Buelin.
Harley Buelin is visiting relatives
in Elkin.
R. C. Dunn is on the sick list—we
wish him a speedy recovery.
R. R. Buelin, truck foreman, visit
ed relatives in Walnut Cove, during
the week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Smith visited
his kinsfolk near Hillsboro last week.
Nat. G. Norwood, of Greensboro, is
visiting on route 2.
T. D. Norwood is seriously ill at
the home of his mother on Route 2.
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FACTS FOR i
FARMERS
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CROPS. .
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Terracing Schools at
Bonlee, March 11-12
and Siler City, 13-14
Guernseys are becoming increas
ingly popular in this county. Mr.
Rufus Clark of Siler City recently
purchased a two year old registered
Guernsey bull. This is a fine in
dividual, and will certainly improve
the quality of the dairy cattle in that
community. Mr. Clark is also pre
paring to seed several acres in im
proved pasture this spring.
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A four-acre field seeded in les
pedeza last spring was turned this
winter to be planted in corn by Mr.
J. E. Clark of the Hickory Mountain
community. There was a good stand
of lespedeza on this field, consider
ing that it was the first-year seeding,
and farmers will be interested in ob
serving the yield of corn on this land
due to the crop of lespedeza turned
under. Mr. Claark states that the
average yield of corn on this land
will not go over 20 bushels per acre,
but he is expecting a considerably
larger yield due to his lespedeza.
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Mr. D. H. Sinston of the Antioch
Church community near Goldston re
cently purchased a pure bred Jersey
bull. This bull is the offspring of
one of the heifers sold in the! sale
at Siler City in 1927, and shows all
the ear-marks' of good type and
breeding.
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Messrs. C. A. Culberson and Ernest
Brewer, of the Bonlee and Hickory
Mountain communities respectively,
are cooperating with the agent in
conducting two terracing demon
strations on their farms as a part
of the program of the two terracing
schools to be held at Bonlee and
Siler City, Monday, Tuesday,. Wed
nesday and Thursday, March 11, 12,
13 and 14. Class room is to be
given in the mornings and practical
demonstrations will be conducted in
the afternoons.
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Mr. N. J. Dark of the Hickory
Mountain community will conduct a
five-acre demonstration with corn,
using nitrate of soda as side dressing
this spring. This five-acre field is
on the left of highway No. 90 going
towards Siler City, and farmers will
be interested in observing the effects
of large applications of nitrate of
soda on the growth of corn.
Mr. M. C. Cooper is conducting a |
five acre demonstration with nitrate j
of soda applied as a top dressing
for wheat. This demonstration is
located near Pittsboro.
FINAL SHIPMENT OF SOY
BEANS TO BE MADE SOON
The last co-operative order for
soy beans for this season will be
sent in shortly. This order will con
sist of about 800 bushels of Mam
moth Yellows, and about 25 bushels
of Laredos. These beans will be
slightly higher than the previous lots,
as they are costing $2.20 at the ship
ping point. We hope that every
farmer in this county will seed at
least two bushels in soy beans this
spring.
CO-OPERATIVE POULTRY
LOADING AT SILER CITY
By the time this paper is delivered
to readers, the second co-operative
shipment of poultry in this county
will be loaded. Good prices were
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Farm News
I Edited by N. C. SHIVER, County Agt. j
secured for this shipment, 25 cents
per pound being paid for both light
and heavy hens, 30 cents for broilers.
30 cents for young turkeys and 13
cents for roosters. On the success
of this co-operative shipment depends
tHe establishment of a good year
around poultry market for our farm
ers. In the future, plan to patronize
these cars and help build up a good
market for poultry in this county.
PASTURE MEETINGS
Mr. A. C. Kimrey, dairy specialist,
and Mr. F. H. Mendenhall will assist
the county agent in holding two
pasture meetings in the western part
of the county this week. The exact
date and place of meetings have not
been arranged as yet, but we hope
to announce them later.
TERRACING SCHOOLS
As has been announced in previous
articles, Mr. A. T. Holman, extension
agricultural engineer, will assist the
agent in conducting two terracing;
schools in the county, March 11, 12,
13 and 14. Monday and Tuesday,
March 11 and 12, demonstrations in
locating and constructing terraces
will be held on the farm of C. A.
Culberson near Bonlee, beginning at
2p. m. During the mornings, class
room work will be given at the Bon
lee school, beginning at 9:30 a. m.
Wednesday and Thursday after
noons, March 13 and 14, beginning
at 2 p. m., practical demonstrations
will be given on the farm of Ernest
Brewer of the Hickory Mountain
community. Class room work will
be conducted in the mornings at Siler
City, above the Hardware Store.
“FACTS FOR FARMERS”
“I am so located that it is im
possible for me to grow enough
grain for my flock of 350 Barred
Rocks, and I have to buy commercial
scratch feed and also laying mash.
Do you think that 1 can make my
hens pay under the above con
ditions?”
You will find that you can buy
your scratch and mash feed ingredi
ents and mix them, cheaper than they
can be bought ready mixed. As to
whether or not your hens will pay
under the above named conditions
depends entirely upon strict culling
and selection. We believe that they
will pay you if you practice rigid
selection and culling, eliminating
your culls at once. However, under
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THURSDAY, MARCH t 1990
DOINGS OF
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FARMERS
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STOCK FARMING, j
POULTRY,
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those conditions, eggs alone will not
pay it. It will be necesary for you
to have also broilers to sell during
the season, and if your flock is blood
tested, market baby chicks, provided
you sell fhem from a good, sound
flock.
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“I am writing you in regard to
Korean lespedeza. I have tried sev
eral parties, and have so far been
unable to get any seecU Can you
put me in touch with any parties who
have used seed for sale?”
The supply of Korean Kobe and
Lespedeza No. 76 was very limited
this year. We do not know of any
individual farmers who have any of
the above named varieties of seed.
IJowever, we notice that T. W. Wood
and Son of Richmond, Va., is quoting
Korean Lespedeza at 50 cents per
pound. This is the only source we
know of.
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Pittsboro Wins From
Clayton by Good Score
The winning Pittsboro basket bait
team played Claytc.n Monday eve
ning and as usual won by a good
score. The team has won the county
championship and has won nearly all
games played with out-of-county
teams. It is now in line for contests
at State College, preliminary to the
state championship battle. Pittsboro
has won 20 out of 23 games played,
this season. *
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